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box canyons

box canyons is the plural of box canyon.

Meaning of box canyon

Noun

box canyon (plural box canyons)

  1. A canyon which has a single access for entrance and exit, being otherwise enclosed on all sides by steep walls.
    • The Box Canyon was adequately named. It was a box, a trap.1912, Jack London, chapter 2, in Smoke Bellew

Questions about box canyons

What is box canyons the plural of?
Box canyons is the plural of box canyon.

Words near box canyons in the dictionary

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